Monthly Archives: June 2014

Today we hold our last Automation Training day for this quarter. So if you want to learn something about test automation at Mozilla, feel free to join at any time during the day. We are around all day, waiting to answer your questions, and to get you started if you want to contribute to one of our projects.

In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 17 and 18.

Highlights

In one of the last automation reports I mentioned that we wanted to finish up the already in-progress Mozmill tests for Firefox Metro. With lots of work mostly done by Daniel we were finally able to close all the bugs as fixed. Now everyone is back on top of our new quarterly goals.

To follow our goals in educating more people about automation, we also have to reach out more on Github to actually find interested people. Therefore Henrik requested a Github mirror of our mozmill-tests repository. It’s available at https://github.com/mozilla/qa-mozmill-tests now.

As seen for the last beta and final releases of Firefox we still have a good amount of broken configuration files for ondemand update tests in Mozmill CI. Those are failures done by the person who runs those tests, but also by broken behavior in the mciconf tool. Given that, we want to put more focus on the full automation stack for update tests now. To get started we need appropriate notifications send out by Mozilla Pulse.

Individual Updates

For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 17 and week 18.

Meeting Details

If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda, the video recording, and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 17 and week 18.

The Firefox QA Automation team is hosting another Automation Training day on June, 4th. The event is a day long, so join us whenever you are free. You will be able to learn details about our projects, how we tackle automation requests, or simply to get started with coding. We are always around to assist you in getting started.

In this post you can find an overview about the work happened in the Firefox Automation team during week 15 and 16.

Highlights

To be able to support the new update path for Firefox Beta users via a final release candidate on the beta channel, we had to update our update testruns with Mozmill in the mozmill-automation repository. Further we also had to add support for this update path in Mozmill CI. Cosmin spend his time on those patches, and finally we got those out and active. That means from now on our software update tests can handle Firefox X.0b9 -> Firefox X.0RC -> Firefox %X+1%.0b1 updates. More information can be found on bug 960781.

We also pushed some other updates for Mozmill-CI to our production system, which includes timestamps for the log output of the pulse listener, and the addition of the application name for the product to test. The latter was necessary for MetroFirefox. But even after we stopped support for it, we wanted to see it landed given that we could add other products more easily in the future.

Also Henrik pushed a change for Mozmill-CI, which removed support for running localized versions of Firefox Nightly builds. This was necessary so that our systems can be better utilized for those Aurora, and Beta builds – where actually most of the localization work is happening.

Individual Updates

For more granular updates of each individual team member please visit our weekly team etherpad for week 15 and week 16.

Meeting Details

If you are interested in further details and discussions you might also want to have a look at the meeting agenda, the video recording, and notes from the Firefox Automation meetings of week 15 and week 16.